{"id":4322,"date":"2013-12-31T15:15:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T07:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2014-01-04T15:35:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T07:35:16","slug":"narrow-winged-wattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/narrow-winged-wattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrow Winged Wattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140102-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5669\" alt=\"20140102 001\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140102-001-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140102-001-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140102-001.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Narrow Winged Wattle (<a href=\"http:\/\/florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au\/browse\/profile\/3557\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Acacia stenoptera Benth.<\/em><\/a>) looks like it is about to flower, which is either a bit later or a bit earlier than usual! \u00a0It normally flowers between March and November. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0They are odd looking plants as they don&#8217;t have true leaves. \u00a0The stalk that would normally attach the leaf to the stem has broadened and flattened and acts as a leaf. This is a common adaptation in Acacias and makes the whole plant is rigid and leathery and more able to withstand heat and drought. \u00a0The stem and stalk both have a defined ridge and the whole plant is stiff and erect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140102-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5668\" alt=\"20140102 004\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140102-004-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140102-004-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140102-004.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Narrow Winged Wattle (Acacia stenoptera Benth.) looks like it is about to flower, which is either a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140102-001.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5702,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions\/5702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}